Health IT vendors and healthcare providers are far from ready to start using ICD-10, according to a recent study conducted by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange and reported in Health IT Update.
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In a recent letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the MGMA advocated a thorough determination of new implementation timelines for ICD-10, according to a Health Data Management report.
HHS has announced the winners of HHS' "One Heart in a Million Hearts Challenge," part of the Investing in Innovation program.
Gastroenterologist T. K. Thomas, MD, has joined the medical staff of Baystate Mary Lane Hospital in Ware, Mass., according to a news release.
Frank Phillips, MD, is the director of the section of minimally invasive spine surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He practices with Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and focuses his basic science research on the biomechanics of spinal reconstruction…
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Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, Va., has opened The Center for Advanced Joint and Spine Care, according to a Village News report.
A Kentucky Senate committee approved legislation Tuesday allowing the attorney general control over the state's prescription drug tracking system, but it included revisions to protect physicians from excessive oversight, according to a Lexington Courier-Journal report.
Manatee County in Florida this week approved a new ordinance designed to regulate existing pain clinics in the county and cut down on those that sell prescription drugs for profit, according to a Bradenton Herald report.
No part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act can stand without the individual mandate, conservative Supreme Court justices said today, according to a Chicago Tribune report.